Tonight or Never

Heute nacht oder nie

Synopsis

Asatire on 19th-century class relations that’s also a veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution. Once a year, an aristocratic Austrian family holds a traditional feast at which masters and servants trade places. A troupe of actors are hired to entertain the guests.

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After and contemporary of Schroeter's early theatrical expressionism, in his first feature film Schmid follows the same principle of artifice's derision through a revolutionary inventiveness. The exposed stage is its own "naturalism", opposed to the rules of the general mimetic realism, far more vital than that commonplace . In the next film, "La Paloma", he will ascend, literally, to the sky.